A new development build of Wine has been released with version number 8.15. Wine is an open source implementation of the Windows API and allows you to run DOS and Windows programs on Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris and macOS. A large group of developers contribute to Wine and it has been decided to release a new so-called development version every two weeks instead of waiting until a number of new features are ready. A stable edition is published a few times a year. The database with applications that work under Wine, with or without the help of minor adjustments, contains 29,099 titles at the time of writing, which is 53 more than two weeks ago. The following changes and improvements have been made in this release:
What’s new in this release:
- Support for TEXT print processor.
- Cycle Collection support in MSHTML.
- Cross-process memory notifications in Wow64.
Bugs fixed in 8.15 (total 19):
- #43822: TrackMania Nations Forever (Steam) car music doesn’t play
- #45273: Chessbase 11 cannot draw arrows
- #54064: ntdll:threadpool – test_tp_io() sometimes fails & crashes in Wine (GitLab CI)
- #54718: msvcr90:msvcr90 – test__get_current_locale() sometimes gets an unexpected refcount on w10pro64
- #54756: Multiple games crash on unimplemented concrt140.dll.??0_Cancellation_beacon@details@Concurrency@@QEAA@XZ (Forza Horizon 4, The Legend of Sisyphus (Andromeda Software Development))
- #55259: TranscendPang has corrupted graphics in-game
- #55286: msvcrt:file – The 64-bit test_invalid_stdin_child() sometimes gets a bad stdin handle on Windows 10
- #55287: msvcrt:file – The 32-bit test_pipes() fails in the new WoW mode
- #55333: ws2_32:sock – test_connect_events() sometimes fails in Wine
- #55341: Colin McRae Rally 2.0 black screen
- #55351: gdiplus:graphicspath – test_flatten2() fails on Windows 7 – 11
- #55402: CMD ‘!var!’ not working in ‘if’ statement
- #55414: Ultimate Spider-Man: Widescreen Fix shifts HUD too much to the right
- #55443: Wine crashes when an image is dragged onto notepad.exe and games
- #55450: Softerra LDAP Browser needs LDAP_OPT_AUTO_RECONNECT
- #55457: Robot Battle 1.4 crashes on startup after commit 08dc691d
- #55471: nGlide wrapper produces black screen in games using the D3D backend
- #55475: Respondus LockDown Browser crashes on unimplemented function KERNEL32.dll.DiscardVirtualMemory
- #55500: Launching new processes in Virtual Desktops is slow and stutters the system
| Version number | 8.15 |
| Release status | Unstable |
| Operating systems | Linux, BSD, macOS, Solaris |
| Website | Wine HQ |
| Download | https://wiki.winehq.org/Download |
| License type | GPL |